The most recent reported hail day was 2025-11-08, 265 days ago. Johnston County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2019-05-13 near Coats Crossroads.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in North Carolina. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-11-08, around Coats Crossroads. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Johnston County addresses inside a hail swath above your size threshold into a door-knock list you can export, scoped to your approved markets.
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See call-center options ->NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 56 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 6 of the 22 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.6 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 22 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2019-05-13. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 22 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Coats Crossroads -- 7 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Clayton (7), Flowers (4), Four Oaks (4) and Benson (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Kenly, Selma, Micro and Princeton on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Benson | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 5 S Flowers | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Four Oaks | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Kenly | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 1 Sw Clayton | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 19 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (36%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, September and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Coats Crossroads. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-27 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2019-05-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-13 | 2.75″ | 7 |
| 2017-07-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail per ~1 km cell; the dots are SPC ground reports. Yellow is about an inch, red 1.5 to 2″, purple 2″ and up (hail size vs roof damage). On this county's worst day the reports reached 2.75 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Wake County (47 hail days), Harnett County (22) and Wayne County (15). Johnston County sits in between.
Wake County · Harnett County · Wayne County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Johnston County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.